Traditional healers in Mexico: The effectiveness of spiritual practices

Handbook of Culture, Therapy, and Healing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 161-174

  Finkler, Kaja ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85082281422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410610416-19     Document Type: Chapter

References (18)

1. Benson, H. (1974). Your innate asset for combating stress. Harvard Business Review, July-August, 49-60.
2. Benson, H., Klotch, J., Crassweller, K., & Greenwood, M. (1976). Historical and clinical considerations of the relaxation response. American Scientist, 65,441-445.
3. Eisenberg, D., Davis, R., Ettner, S., Appel, S., Wilkey, S., Van Rompay, M., & Kessler, R. (1998). Trends in Alternative Medicine use in the United States, 1990-1997. Journal of the American Medical Association, 280, 1569-1575.
4. Eisenberg, D., Kessler, R. C., Foster, C., Norlock, F., Calkins, D., & Delbanco, T. (1993). Unconventional medicine in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine, 28,246-283.
5. Finkler, K. (1991). Physicians at work, patients in pain. Boulder, CO: Westview.
6. Finkler, K. (1994a). Spiritualist healers in Mexico. Salem, WI: Sheffield. (Originally published in 1985 by Praeger and Bergin and Garvey).
7. Finkler, K. (1994b). Women in pain. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
8. Finkler, K. (1997). Gender, domestic violence and sickness in Mexico. Social Science and Medicine, 45(8), 1147-1160.
9. Finkler, K. (2000a). Experiencing the new genetics. Family and kinship on the medical frontier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
10. Finkler, K. (2000b). Diffusion reconsidered: Variation and transformation in biomedical practice: A case study from Mexico. Medical Anthropology 39(1),1-39.
11. Jones, D. (1972). Sanapia, Comanche medicine woman. New York: Hold, Rinehart, and Winston.
12. Katz, R. (1982). Boiling energy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
13. Lex, B. (1976). Physiological aspects of ritual trance. Journal of Altered States of Consciousness, 2,109-122.
14. Lex, B. (1978). Neurological bases of revitalization. Zygon, 13,276-312.
15. McGuire, M. (1988). Ritual healing in suburban America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
16. McKeown, T. (1979). The role of medicine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
17. Melzack, R. (1976). Pain: Past, present and future. In M. Weisenberg & B. Tursky (Eds.), Pain (pp. 135-146). New York: Plenum Press.
18. Melzack, R., & Wall, P. (1975). Psychophysiology of pain. In M. Weisenberg (Ed.), Pain, clinical and experimental perspectives (pp. 8-23). St. Louis, MO: C.V. Mosby.